Distbict of



W, McGILL.

BUTTON.

No. 65,250. Patented May 28, 1867.

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GEORGE .w. menu OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF. COLUMBIA Limin No. 55,250, dated'fl'dy 28,1867.

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TO WHOM" IT MAY. QQNOEBJS: I v 7 Be it known that G30: W.MeG1LL, of the city of'wsshington, andllistri'ct of colnmbia, havcinventad anew and useful Improvement in the Means of Attaching Buttons to Textile Fabrics and thelike substances and I do hereby declare thet the following is a. full, clesr, and'exaot description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawing, in which- I l I I Figure 1 is a seotionnl view of a button adopted" to receive the shenk by which it is te be ettached to the" garment.- v v Figure 2 is a sectional view of a button of another form with-the shank stteohed. Figures Bfand '4 are clevationsjqf-buttons of difl'erent fornis with shanks attached. Figure 5 is a sectional View of a button with sshank attsehed,-consisting of a.strip of metal bent into the form of a staple, and the two legs thereof pressedolose together.

Figures 6, I, and 8 are vie s of buttons vattached .to' the cloth byimeans of in, improvement, the shank and the cloth being shown in section. I v

Figures 9, 10, 11, and 12 are views of shanks detitched from the buttons.

Iigures 18,114,15, 16,and 17 are thin metal washers to heplaeed on the opposits'side of cloth-from the buttons, over which the shsnksiare inclined down, ns hereinafter more fully explained.

' The nature of my invention consistsin making the shank by which the button is attached to the garment" of a bent strip of thin, pliable nietal, so bent and pressed together asto form a double or split shsnk', consisting of two parts, which wlll penetrate the cloth together, making but one hole; and inproviding a motel washer to" he placed on the reverse side'ef the cloth from the button, over'which the two parts couiposing the shank, may

be clinched down after passing through the cloth s'nd being spread asunder.

prefertomske the shank by bending'e strip of motel double in the form of a T, as shown big/10,011 'thoprinciple or my paper-fastener, as described in the patent issued to 'me July 24, 1866, except that the head should be madeicircular; but other modes" of making it may be-adopted, the material point being to produce a double or split shank consisting-of two pnrts,'which will penetrate the cloth together, rnslting but one hole,,'and

whichmay be clinched down separately on the reverse side of. the-cloth from the button. The shsnk may he msde separately anddet aehable fromthe button), and inserted through a central hole, as shown in Hg. 1, or the head may he firn'ily fixed in the button, as shown in fig. 8, or the shank may consi'st;of n strip of metal looped around o bar in the button, as shown in fig. 5. When the double or split shank is pushed through the cloth, a thin metel washer is to he applied, and thepoints of the shank spread asunder and clinched down over it. The

w' ashersnay have a hole in the centre, through rhich the shnnk'willpass, as show-n in figs. 13, 16, and 17, orit m be recessedon two opposite sides, as shown in figs. 14 and 15, in which lest-mentioned cuse'tho points of when]: claim any-invention,- and desire to secure by Letters Pitent, isv The-double or split metdl shank for a button, herein described, in combination with a metal washer, eonstructed and applied substantially.described.

GEORGE W. McGILL.

Witnesses;

J. J. Coons, Jos. L. Coons.

on the cloth, the washer .then applied, and 

